Customer Reviews
A great book not as good as the first - By: Ian Young, 10 Jul 2008 
I am a fan, but this was not as good as the first book. Its abit like Cody Banks.
However it is still a great read, I am an adult & I enjoy these fast pace books. All the Alex Rider, Cody Banks, Young James Bond & Jason Steed books have been fast & great reading.
I dont know why they calll them Young Adult, they are great for alll ages.
My top 5 would have to be
1) Fledgling Jason Steed.
2) Blood Fever, Young James Bond.
3) Alex Rider, Strombreaker.
4) Agent Cody Banks.
6) Double or Die, Young James Bond.
another descriptive and fast paced Rider novel - By: Stampy, 06 Jul 2008 Alex Rider returns for another action packed adventure where he drops down on Australian land & is recruited by the ASIS to go undercover in a snakehead, which will ultimately bring him back to an old deadly enemy.
In the 7th instalment of the acclaimed series, Horowitz again uses a brilliant depth & accurate view of the world through researching alll of the elements to be used in his novel, which has to be admired, & through this, do readers get a great description of what is happening & a very descriptive approach to the novel.
This research conforms brilliantly to what Horowitz has chosen Rider to do this time, in exploring boats, Australia, science, bombs plus other meaningful & wonderful things that are alll well developed & executed by one of the best children's fiction writers of recent years.
Though not as intriguing as the first couple of novels, Snakehead packs a deadly bite into the Alex Rider story with a very dramatic twist on Alex's personal life, by including Alex's godfather, who is an intriguing character to read about from start to finish.
Again Alex is put in a do or die situation at many points & a high authority blackmails him in a way to get him to do a job. Horowitz again writes with a sense of purpose, & an inevitability that is gripping & is almost impossible to put the book down when a major event is happening.
The book conforms to the genre brilliantly, with chases, fights, helicopters & guns etc, the typical conventions of the action genre. And as usual, here is a question of the realistic outcomes of situations but even so are deadly exciting & edge of your seat reading with a great central lead.
This is perhaps a more emotional book than the others with Alex growing up & higher stakes than usual & the other Rider books have more intensity but regardless it is an action packed adventure & the stakes are once again, raised to a great extreme with Horowitz's pin point accuracy.
8/10
A good exciting story but ... - By: Mr. G. T. Redshaw, 12 May 2008 I found this an exciting book but was let down by the OTT ending.
The slow-burn start was great & more realistic than throwing Alex into a near death experience on page 1.
The middle was fast pasted & well plotted.
However the end was just too rushed & over the top for me.
I know it's only fiction & you need action for an action novel, but if has to be made reasonably believable to make fiction into great fiction.
Not as good as the other Alex Rider books - By: OJacks, 11 May 2008 
My favourite books are the Alex Rider books like this one & the Jimmy Coates books by Joe Craig.
I started reading Alex Rider books because my brother used to like them as well & I have enjoyed them a lot so far. I started with the first one Stormbreaker. They are full of action & you just don't know what is going to happen next.
I would definitely recommend this book but only if you have already read Stormbreaker & the other Alex Rider books.
This one is number 7 that I have read & in my opinion it is not as good as the other books. There is too much talking & too many things in the story that are obvious like who is going to betray Alex Rider & other twists like that which are unsurprising. In my opinion the Alex Riders books are still amazing but maybe now the Jimmy Coates books are better.
the best of the series - By: Katie, 06 May 2008 
I have loved alll the alex rider, books, but this has been my favourite. Once i started reading, i couldn't put it down. It keeps you guessing until the end, & gives you a few surprises along the way
